Promoting the art and craft of woodturning in the Scottish Highlands
Our latest meeting on Thursday 20th March was a solo presentation by Dave Line on the art of Segmented or Polychromatic assemblies. This art relies on using many pieces of woods of various colours that have to be cut to very accurate tolerances in order to make some of the items featured here.
Continue reading “Report on our latest meeting 20-03-2025 a solo presentation by Dave Line.”One or two members told the secretary that the dates on the website were not adjusted to the change in competition date. Bob assures you that he did check when he got home and all seems to be correct. The amended dates were published on 11th March. He assumes that you may not have refreshed the page from a previous viewing.
Joint venture by Alan Geddes and Nick Simpson. 1st Shield Competition for 2025 handled by Nick Simpson. The subject matter for the competition is Money Boxes
Arranged by Dave Line, he did a solo presentation on the art of segmented turning including how the layers are made up.
Our meeting on Thursday 6th March 2025 was a demonstration by Mark Sutton on the art of making boxes.
After being introduced by our new chairman, Mark gave the meeting a short history about his turning. He was a founding member of this club that started in 2006 and is still a member today. His involvement in the demonstration circuit came about by Alec asking Mark to do demonstrations at our premises. This led on to him doing demonstrations elsewhere . Mark always comes back to his roots in the club when invited to do a demonstration.
Continue reading “Report by Alec Mutch on our meeting 06-03-2025. Organized by David Hobson.”We have added two documents for woodturners entering competitions. One is for the club shield competitions for 2025. This can be viewed by selecting the link here and the other contains the judging criteria
We have a new form for all members to complete and also as an application form for people who would like to join. Please click here to access it , and return to hwctreasurer@gmail.com
The previous Facebook page is managed by the former Chairman, so we have to set up a new page for the future ( which will be managed by more than one person). We are looking for some more members to take on the task of ” blogging” on the page.
The new page is under the name “Highland Woodturners Club from 2025“
However don’t forget the old page which contains a wealth of information
We are expecting this to be a demonstration by one of our members on box making